First field season for IceCube Upgrade ongoing at the South Pole
A view of the seasonal equipment site from the first field season for the IceCube Upgrade. Image: Kurt Studt, IceCube/NSF
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Neutrinos (blue sky map) in front of an artist’s impression of the Milky Way. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration/Science Communication Lab for CRC 1491
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#IceCube10 – Celebrating 10 Years of IceCube
#IceCube10 – Celebrating 10 Years of IceCube
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IceCube Explained
What exactly is IceCube? How does it use the South Pole ice to see neutrinos from outer space? Image: Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF
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Research Highlights
From neutrino physics to glaciology to dark matter, IceCube science spans a variety of fields.
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Meet the Collaboration
The IceCube Collaboration includes hundreds of people from around the world. Image: Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF
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Activities and Resources
Learn more about IceCube by playing a game, making crafts, or reading our comic!
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Working at the Pole
IceCube science begins at the South Pole. Image: Yuya Makino, IceCube/NSF
Neutrinos are tiny “ghostlike” particles that traverse long distances across the universe, interacting with matter only through the weak force. They come in three different types or “flavors”—electron, muon, and tau—and during their journey through the atmosphere and the Earth can transform from one flavor to another. This phenomenon, called [...]
University of Wisconsin–Madison physicist Francis Halzen has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Halzen is one of 120 scientists elected this year in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, according to the academy’s announcement of the new members this week. Election to the academy is among the highest honors that a scientist can receive. [...]
There they are—those big, expansive, colorful auroras that seem to fill the sky! The highlight for last week at the Pole might have been the auroras, but it’s worth noting that capturing these lovely photographs required braving really cold temperatures and high winds. Still, auroras alone might be enough motivation [...]